1789 22 Aug. My son is cricket mad..his head is like his cricket-ball, Compos'd of dross and leather.
1897 C. Scott 30 When I arrived in Bombay in the winter of 1892, I found that gloriously beautiful city literally cricket mad.
2006 8 Apr. (Weekend section) 2 I remember, as a cricket-mad schoolboy, swelling fit to burst with pride at appearing in Wisden, the holy of holies.